Chair



March 27, 1928. 1,664,103

- Y E. M. BISHOFF CHAIR Filed Aug. 17. 1926 r 2 Sheets- Sheet l March 27, 1928.

- E. M. BISHOFF CHAIR Filed Aug. 17, 1926 2 Sheets-Sneez 2 I -315 izojfi.

i I Patented. Mar. 27, 1928.

UNI-TED STATES orrlca.

EUGENE M. BISHOFF; CALIFORNIA.

Application. fled-AugnBt-17,-1926; Serial. 1T0. 128,712.

, Thisinvention relates to improvementsiin': chairs. An object of this'invention is. to provide; an improved chair of. simple constructrom. parts of which such as the seat and back are provided by fabric, thus fornnngayleldp able seat and back which are qulte comfortable. I

Another object of this invention is to Y ro.- vide an improved chair having front egs: and. back legs and having parts. connecting: the front legs to the back legs and other" parts connecting the front le s to. eachother; and the back legs. to each. ot er, these parts. being so arranged as to form a lockwhich ,will prevent the construction ofthe chair from loosening, thus forming a. rigid. and: durable chair. v

A further object. of this invention is'xto provide-an improved chair back, which; is:

so constructed that theback legs. of; the chair may be perfectly vertical, but by the. construction of the back theback rest'will ble: slightly upwardly and backwardly inclined.- By having the back legs of. the chairip erfectly vertical instead of upwardly and rearwardly inclined, the chair may be easily boxedfor shipping. With the foregoing and other objects. view which. will be made manifest in the following detailed description and specifi cally pointed out in the appended. claims, reference is had to the accompanying. drawi-ngs for an illustrative embodiment of. the. invention, wherein: v

Figure 1 is a perspective view of: thesim-- provedv chair, Fig. 2 is a partial top plan v1ew.11lustrat-. ingone of t e legs of the chair and the. 40 connectin parts secured thereto,

Fig. 3 1s a vertical section takensubstantially on the line 33 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken substantially on the line 4-i-4 of Fig. 3, Fig; 5 is a perspective view of. the chair; illustrating the construction of theback,

Fig. 6 is a vertical section taken upon the line 6-6 of Fig. 5, and v Fi 7 is a horizontal section takenonthe line 7 of; Fig. 5. g

' Referring to the accompanying drawings. wherein similar reference characters desi'ge' nate similar parts throughout, the improved. chair consists of four legs 10, 11, 12.and'l3...

ancez Aperturesiare formed in the legs 10 and. 11. through. which. the ends of these rounds: extend with. their end: faces either flush: OITBXlZBIIdlIIg' slightly with the outer sides. of: the. legs. In" a similar manner rounds Idandilj joinithe-rear le s 12 and 1 3,- the-round: 17 being gdisposed ad acent the bottomsofth'eselegs and theround 16 bein arranged".horizontally 'even. with the round l4and atabout-the centers. of the rear legs.

Al thirdround? 181- joins the upper ends ofthe: rear: legs.-

An. important? feature. of this invention is to. provide an im roved. construction for joiningi'the front. egs. of. the chair to the back legs, so thata lockwill be rovided which will notloosen and which wlllmain tainlithe'chair rigid; As most of the strains placedlcn achair: occur in' parts joining the frontle s: to the baek'legs. Thelock is so arrange as-to resistthe se arating movements offthese. parts-instea -of across the chair; To accomplish? this construction two roundsfllt) andi20 joinithe upper end of the front leg; 10 to the rear'zleg 12 and a similar pair: ofroun'ds121andl22 join the front leg 1l..to: th'e'rear: legs: 13;. These rounds have theiriendfaces arrangedfiush with the front and..back-' faces of the front and "back legs respectively. The rounds 19 and 20 are separated from each other. a distance smaller 23 which receive portions of the rounds 14 and 16. In assembling the chair chair legs, resisting any separating movement or any pulling out of the rounds 19, 20, 21 and 22 from their ective chair legs. Rounds 24 and 25 join t e lower portions of the front legs to their respective back legs and these rounds have recesses 26 formed in them adjacent their ends which will receive portions of the rounds 15 and 17, thus forming a lock at the lower ends of the legs which will keep them firmly con: nected together. Additional rounds 27 may also be employed to connect the lower ends of the front legs to the back legs, and while these rounds mi hthave recesses formed in them which will receive portions of the rounds 15 and 17 similar to the rounds 20 and 22, they are preferably used without this connection as it is unnecessary usuallg to have a double lock at the lower ends 0 the A nother important feature of this chair resides in the construction of the back. As clearly shown upon the drawing, the back legs 12 and 13 are perfectly vertical and straight. The back rest, however, is slightly upwardly and rearwardly inclined. -To' rovlde this construction two stri s of fa ric are emplo ed, these being indicated at 27 and 28. ese stri s have their ends bent around the legs, and secured thereto as by tacks 29. Intermediate the back legs 12 and 13 the up er strip 27 is somewhat loose so that it w assume a osition at its center a ainst the upper roun 18. The lower strip 0 fabric 28 is stretched somewhat tighter between the legs, so that its center ortion will be disposed almost *evenlwith t e forward faces of the back legs. A relatively wide section of fabric 30 is then applied having its center portion arranged over the upper round 18 and over the u per strip of fabric 27. Both ends of the fa ric strip 30 are then brought downwardly in front of the lower strip 28 and then wrapped around rest the round 16 and secured thereto by tacks 31 or the like. As this strip of fabric is drawn fairly tight, it will cause the back rovided thereby to be sli htl transverse y curved, as shown in Fig. l urthermore, as thelower strip 28 is drawn tighter than the upper stri 27, the'forward half of the fabric will u wardly and rearwardly inclined to a slig t extent. A person sitting on the chair will cause this porits forward face dispo tion to move backwardly slightly until it engages or almost engages the rear half of the fabric 30. This together with the lower fabric strip 28, which is yieldable to a slight de ee, forms a comfortable back rest. I

s the back legs are perfectly vertical, it will be ap reciated that the improved chair can be easi y boxed and shipped.

The seat of the chair may be provided by any suitable construction, but in the preferred form, this seat is provided by a plurality of strips of fabric 32 which are rela tively wide and which are woven together. The ends of these strips-are wrapped around the rounds 14, 16, 19 and 21 and secured thereto.

From the above described construction it will be appreciated that an improved chair is provided which is of relatively simple construction, rigid and durable, and which is quite comfortable.

It will be understood that various chan es ma be made in the detail of construction wit out departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

"I claim:

1. A chair having a pair of front and rear supporting u rights, a seat attached to said rights in a plane with said seat, a flexible cross member connecting the uprights between the cross bars, and a back forming flexible member extending from the first cross bar downwardly over the forward side of the'eflexible cross member and being secured to the second cross bar., 2. A chair having a pair of front and rear supporting u rights, a seat attached to said uprights, sai rear uprights extendin above said seat to form a back, top and ttom cross bars connecting the uprights, said bottom bar lying substantially in a plane with said seat, a exible cross'member' connecting the uprights between the cross bars but located most adjacent the bottom cross bar and a flexible back forming member, sai back forming member extending over the upper cross bar and having its ends extendmg downwardly therefrom forwardly of the flexible cross member and secured to the bottom cross bar. i

3. A chair having a back comprising two uprights, top and bottom cross bars connecting the uprights, the. to crossbar having sed rearwardly of the forward edges of-said uprights, a flexible cross member positioned against the forward edges of the uprights and connecting them, sa1d flexible cross member being located between the cross bars and most adjacent the bottom cm bar, a. second flexible the top cross bar end having its ends excross member positioned against the foward tending downwardly and forwardly of the edges of the uprifihts and connecting them, first flexible cross member and secured to 10 said second flexib e cross member being 10- the bottom cross bar. Y

cated forwardly of the top cross bar, and In testimony whereof I have signed my a. flexible back forming member extendin name to this ification.

over the second flexible cross member an UGENE M. BISHOFF. 

